In the panel discussion which followed, Professor Masahide Horita of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences of UTokyo acted as moderator, and was joined by Ms. Norie Kobayashi, Coordinator of the IITM-NUT Office at Nagaoka University of Technology, Professor Hiroyuki Koyama, Associate Director of Organization for Promotion of Glocalization and Head of Glocalization Promotion Division at Gifu University, and Mr. Tetsuya Nakamura, Chief Digital Innovation Officer & Vice President of Tata Consultancy Services Japan, as panelists.

Prof. Naoto Sekimura, Vice President of UTokyo, summarized things at the end of the symposium. Prof. Sekimura explained that the key points for building a platform gained since the first symposium held in 2018 were (1) linking university initiatives, (2) linking the regions of Japan and India, and (3) cooperating with industry, and that this symposium provided good practices and prospects for each of these points. He explained that this symposium was to show the good practices and prospects for each of these points. He also pointed out that while industry and universities do not necessarily place the emphasis on the same things, it is important to build a cooperative relationship. He said that it is important for universities to find universality in diversity and to develop Japan-India exchange based on intellectual exchange.
He also appreciated the fact that the symposium was able to connect networks of networks by getting people who already have networks to interact online in the face of the COVID-19 calamity. He concluded by expressing his hopes for the development of a platform based on such activities, which will become extremely important in the post- COVID-19 era.